WARREN ELLIS Nina Simones Gum (An early Uncorrected Proof 190-page softback edition of Warrens book which was released as a 208-page hardback in September 2021. On Thursday 1st July 1999 Dr Nina Simone gave a rare performance as part ofNick Caves Meltdown Festival. After the show in a state of awe Warren Ellis crept onto the stage took Dr Simones piece of chewed gum from the piano wrapped it in her stage towel and put it in a Tower Records bag. The gum remained with him for twenty years; a sacred totem his creative muse a conduit that would eventually take Ellis back to his childhood and his relationship with found objects growing in significance with every passing year. Nina Simones Gum is about how so